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We were -12 this morning, but it got to 22 in the afternoon.

I’m beginning to understand why the old folks head for St. George in the winter.

 

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Bright sunny and 25 degrees as a high, but it was 37 yesterday, so the 6" of leftover snow is all crusty, and there's slick spots everywhere it was melted.

 

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So...you're saying it might make it.

 

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Yup. All my nautical knowledge I learned from Cubans.

Now THATS A LAND.....I MEAN, YACHT.

Deville, isn't it? 1960 or so?

 

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It's been warm enough to make mud out of the frozen ground here. Sunny and clear, 40's in the day, mid 20's at night.
Should snow a few inches next week.

 

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Snowing here, lightly, but on and off since yesterday morning. Sat on the road just below the pass for 40 minutes last night as the EMT’s and LEO sorted out a car and pickup with trailer, not sure who was going where, but they met pretty hard, two ambulances, three wreckers, and a LOT of pissed off truckers.

What happened to the day when they’d shove all the broken stuff off to the side, and cops would direct traffic around the scene, while the EMTs did their job? It’s 4 lanes wide, both vehicles ended up against a guardrail 15’ off the road, they could have easily kept all the emergency vehicles in one lane, left one lane as a buffer, and got traffic going slowly both ways in the other two lanes...but no.

 

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Lawsuits. If they get up and move themselves, they're taking the risk of furthering injuries in to their own hands. If we move them then treat them, it's all our fault they were even injured in the first place because they felt fine right up until we intervened.

I get it...but when I got there, the ambulances were already there. No idea how long, I was about 800 yards away from the lights, so that much traffic had been stopped. So it took them more than 40 minutes to get them out of the car, into the ambulance, and headed out. Of course, you can't tell from looking, but the cabins weren't crushed, no rollovers, and the sides we could see weren't crushed in, so it didn't "look" that bad.

But 5 minutes after the ambulances rolled, as we rolled past the place, the wreckers already had the truck up on a flat bed, the car and the trailer ready to go...and they were all 300 feet up the road from where the guard rails and sideways tracks from the ambulances turning around showed the accident to be.

So they must have been out of the truck for at least 10-15 minutes, you'd think. But then, maybe they needed that bus to wait, for passengers from the car, or vice versa...

Yeah...just frustrating. Not meaning to Monday morning QB it all. But the last few accidents I've been around have been clusters. Could be the guys running the show, could be the idiots driving by, lord knows they can be beyond stupid, so I guess I can understand not letting the idiots have a chance to hurt anyone else. Like you said, it would all be someone else's fault, and the guys in uniform would get screwed either way.

 

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Up to 40 today, it’s still mid teens at night. Snow next week, but by then the snow we do have should be mostly melted.

 

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1 more inch of snow this morning, but it only started about 7 AM, and is still trying. Pretty good winds though, if we had a news person out here, he might be leaning over trying to show how bad it is.

 

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Streets and sidewalks are bare and dry, high 30’s, and 20 mph winds. Just another spring day here.

 

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So....weather jokes....please no one take offense, these are just stupid jokes, and I really like Wyoming...and Nevada.....is....umm.....OK....I guess.

So.....
Why is it so windy in Utah?

Because Nevada blows, and Wyoming sucks.


And for the snow...

What do you call a snowboarder with no girlfriend?

Homeless.


Why does it take so long to build a blonde snow man?

You have to hollow out the head.

 

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We got 1” of snow, but it melted by 3 pm.

Our baseball and softball teams are 3-6 vs the weather, at this rate, they’ll be playing double headers daily for the last two weeks of April trying to get the season in before the state tournament.

And yes, they call it the state tournament in high school.

 

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Sometimes, living in a desert just sounds like a really good idea.
We can’t grow a garden like you guys can, and having just drinking water takes some serious planning...but our houses don’t wash away or burn up every few years.

What will be interesting is, how the politicians play political football with all of you. They’ll all want to line up for a piece of the pie of emergency and recovery money, some well meaning folks will rush to “do something” then gripe and blame the folks on the ground when it isn’t enough or is ineffectual, the left will point fingers at any and all mistakes while doing nothing helpful....while the people just get busy taking care of it.

Stay safe, if you are in the path of the bad stuff. Don’t wait too long to decide it’s time to bug out, if it comes to that.

 

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It's mid 50's and clear out here, spring may have sprung...for a week or so, at least.
Gotta head down to the range and see if its a mud bog, or not, got 5.56 reloads to check out.

 

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I hate when snow gets in my curd, makes the cheese all watery...

Hey, at least it picked a word with 3 of the 4 letters still there...I swear, I usually get something like spell CREEKK and get CREDIT.

 

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Yep. Some guys fall down and sleep, some get better at pool, some get better at picking up women...Moonzy gets better at putting letters together.

 

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I will be going to Bath Iron Works for the commissioning of the Lyndon B Johnson.....

Is that a ship that only attacks in specified corridors, and will not advance beyond a given line, for fear of making the other side angry?

Good ol' LBJ....father of the Great Society, another Democratic plan designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.....

So I read about it...the third and final ship of the 32 they planned to build...it's guns fire a round the Navy no longer procures, and so cannot be used. They wanted to cancel it, but it would have cost more to do that, than to finish it.

Sounds like the PERFECT ship to carry LBJ's name.

I'm a bit sour....it's actually a pretty cool ship, that got caught in the crossfire of technological growth.

 

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So. it never rains in California....but it snows in Florida.

And to point out that the song is wrong....

 

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Bet he thought it was too wet for that to happen...

The range here went from a bog I wouldn’t drive my truck into with my street tires for fear of getting stuck, to just a few muddy spots in 4 days. All the ruts people made are now like concrete speed bumps.

 

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More Bluebonnets to Feast your eyes and souls!

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Looks like Barney got blown all over creation....